Christmas

Christmas

Friends and families

Presents, love a new days of life

New stories, new days of a year

New memories new days have arrived

Snow is glittering and shining in the sky

Drifting down slowly

Looking at each other waiting for

Christmas to arrive New friends

About the author

Maryam a talented 12-year-old Iranian girl became the first asylum seeker to win the Upper Primary category in the Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards, the oldest and largest poetry competition for school-aged children in Australia. Her piece “Me” profoundly questions life. Maryam Sathat Sobhani has only been learning English for two years, but her rapid grasp of the language led to an emotionally powerful poem that won over the judges. Maryam and her parents spent time on Christmas Island, Manus Island and then in Darwin detention before being released into the community in Melbourne where she is flourishing at school.

Dorothea Mackellar Poetry Awards presentation 2014 | PHOTOS, VIDEOS

From Iran with love – young asylum seeker claims Mackellar prize